01. Best night at the Wheeler Centre seeing Sloane Crosley. She talked about writing both fiction and nonfiction, noting that “In complimenting fiction, people say ‘It’s so believable, so realistic’ but in complimenting memoir they say ‘It’s unbelievable!’”. Plus I was thrilled to hear that there’s a movie script for Cult Classic underway, and that her new work of narrative nonfiction focuses on grief (Grief is for People, out next year). Continue reading
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Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. A fab end to the year – a boat trip on the Yarra (skippered by my son who recently completed his commercial coxswain training). Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. Did the Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade tour. Views across Carlton Gardens were lovely, but it was the interior and the basement exhibition about the building that was the best. Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. It had been postponed two times, but finally David Gray made it to Melbourne, and it was a fantastic concert. Gray played for three hours (IKR?!), starting with a bunch of singles from various albums; then the White Ladder album in its entirety; and finishing with some covers and an encore of a couple of hits. He was such a generous performer, sharing stories about the songs and time on tour. Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. Two days in Warburton to progress the Yarra River walking project. We’ve still got lots of in-between bits to walk but we headed to our ‘start’ – the Upper Yarra Reservoir, which is almost at capacity – see the treetops underwater in the foreground of the pic above?! There are loads of excellent walks, and we’re already planning our next visit.
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Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. My baby who’s been away the longest returned home this week. He spent five months in Europe – his favourite places were Montenegro (which is where the pic above was taken), Lapland (below), and the city of Brussels. Continue reading
Six Degrees of Separation – from The Naked Chef to The Recovering
It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. Dozens (or hundreds?…Felt like hundreds) of gin distillers at Junipalooza. We did our bit to support local industry. My absolute favourites for the day: Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. Dinner at Solarace by Chef David. Apart from the actual space being over-the-top fabulous, the standouts were cod with tomato, lychee and avocado fancy bits; abalone tempura that was out of this world; and a wild rice salad that was so good I just wanted to put my face in the bowl (which I couldn’t do because we were with friends and standards and whatnot). Continue reading
Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week
01. The weather wasn’t looking promising before the Hoodoo Gurus concert but it turned out to be a fine evening and when they played Good Times, I felt grateful to be able to go to such events again. Continue reading